Woodworking blog entries tagged with 'quarter sawn walnut'

I have been spending most of my time learning by making some small boxes, cutting boards, shop jigs, blanket chests so far. My goal for later this year is to redo an area upstairs in my house and add a desk with shelves and cabinets. The plan is to do small projects that allow me to pick up a skill to be applied to the later project. So for my next learning experience I am building my first end table. I am starting this blog partway through the process and will cover what has been done so...

Okay, I got approval form the customer and time to get started on the project. To pattern it I enlisted the services from a local sign company. They printed it up with the colors separated life size (life size to the bed not life size in the wild). They made me some mask to use as the pattern.
Here is also the wood I choose to use. They are Quarter Sawn Walnut (dark color) and Lacewood (reddish color):
These were masks so I was able to stick them to the veneer pieces. I cut them out...